From 1991 to 1993, Yorkshire Television in conjunction with Richard Bates produced a highly-successful, twenty-episode television series called The Darling Buds of May, which faithfully recreated the first novel and some of the others before it followed screenplays based on the characters but not on the novels.Ī 2011 edition of the book by the Folio Society includes a lengthy introduction by journalist Ian Jack (pp. The book was filmed with the title "The Mating Game," (1958, U.S., MGM, directed by George Marshall, with Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, and Paul Douglas), an adaptation criticized by Bates in an article called " When the Cinemagoer Complains That 'It Isn't Like The Book' - Who's To Blame?" It was adapted for stage and produced at the Saville Theatre, London, starring Elspeth March and Peter Jones.
The title is taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII. Setting the style for the series, the book ends with a grand celebration, and the announcement of the wedding of Charlie and Mariette.
A cast of colorful village characters provide much diversion in the book and its sequels. Charlton from a malnourished and timid tax clerk to a full member of the Larkin family - Ma and Pa Larkin and their many children - and its easygoing celebration of nature, food, drink, and family. The serialization in Everybody's Weekly included fine illustrations by Leslie Illingworth. Bates: A Selection of Novels and Short Stories. The novel was also included in a 1980 collection, The Best of H.E. Also reprinted in The Saturday Evening Post Stories, 1958 (1959). Chapter one was published with the title "The Darling Buds of May" in the Saturday Evening Post (January 18, 1958).
Serialized in Argosy (May, June, and July 1958), in Everybody's Weekly (Six weekly parts, September 27-November 1, 1958), Daily Mail (Ten parts, Mary 13-23, 1991). London: Michael Joseph, 1958 Original dust jacket by James Broom-Lynne.īoston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book), 1958.
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